#pop

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

I'm not a pop star. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#pop #pop star #star

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. ↗

— Perry Farrell

#did #ever #first #gosh #i

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ↗

— Ken Burns

#assumptions #challenge #diaries #evidence #history

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible. ↗

— Brenda Fassie

#going #i #impossible #next #next year

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#best #both #connecticut #country #going

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. ↗

— Jay-Z

#collection #extensive #filled #grew #had

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#american music #ashamed #because #grew #music

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. ↗

— Nina Fedoroff

#decrease #global #growth #growth rate #many